Based on the principles of transparency, accessibility, usability, verifiability and perceptibility of security capabilities, Antiy releases weekly updates of the AVL SDK anti-virus engine and the full set of capabilities to the public every week.

1.Weekly Update                           

Statistical period: August 1, 2026 ~ August 7, 2026

Antiy AVL SDK anti-virus engine released a total of 84 virus database updates this week, with an average of 12 updates per day, adding 20 new detectable malware families, 8,112 new detectable malware variants, and 11,726 new detection rules.

The following table shows the TOP5 newly detectable malicious code families:

Number	Virus Name	Virus Description
1	Trojan/Linux.CPanWHM	This family is a type of Trojan that typically disguises itself as legitimate software or spreads through software vulnerabilities and malicious downloads. Its primary objectives include stealing sensitive information, establishing persistent backdoors, and potentially participating in botnet activities, posing a serious threat to system security.
2	Trojan/Win32.Ninite	This family is a Trojan that infiltrates victims’ computer systems by deceiving users or carrying other malware. Once infected, it runs in the background, covertly steals sensitive data, monitors user activities, and sends information to remote servers.
3	Trojan/MSIL.XretCrypt[Ransom]	This family is a type of Trojan, usually spreading through phishing emails, malicious downloads or exploiting vulnerabilities. Once infected, this malicious software will encrypt users’ files and demand a ransom to obtain the decryption key, posing a serious threat to the computer system.
4	Trojan/Win64.TerraStealer	This family is a type of Trojan, mainly lurking in computer systems through Trojan programs, monitoring users’ keyboard inputs and screen operations, and recording sensitive information such as account and password.
5	Trojan/Win32.SwimSnake	This family is a type of Trojan, mainly spreading malicious programs through instant messaging software, search engine malicious promotion, phishing emails, etc., using methods such as “white plus black”, “memory executing Shellcode”, “memory decrypting Payload” to ultimately implant a remote control Trojan on the victim’s host.

(According to the HASH number of family samples within the period)

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2. Full Detection Capabilities

As of 24:00 on August 7, 2026, the AVL SDK anti-virus engine can detect 18,648,577 malware variants of 57,373 malware families distributed in 8 basic categories, with a total of 42,369,380 detection rules.

The detection capabilities and the number of rules classified by malicious code are as follows:

Type	Detectable Malicious Code (Types)	Detection rules (Items)
Infectious viruses	59,757	6,836,461
Worms	315,934	3,957,084
Trojans	13,589,434	25,910,898
Hacking tools	459,303	368,799
Risk tools	1,207,682	2,258,773
Rogue software	3,016,428	3,036,174
Junk files	11	1,083
Test programs (for self-test)	28	108
Total	18,648,577	42,369,380

Preprocessing Capabilities (partial) :

There are 31 types of shells that can be unpacked (accurate to the type), and 132 packages that can be disassembled, including all common packages and self-extracting packages.

Supporting Knowledge Output Capabilities:

For malware payloads, the AVL SDK and the accompanying malware knowledge base can output 533 key behavior mapping tags, covering 171 categories of ATT&CK tactical tags, with a coverage rate of 64.29%, basically covering all the statically detectable tags in the ATT&CK framework.

3. Be on Guard Against These Virus Families This Week

This week, the focus is on the new attack actions of the SwimmingSnake (Silver Fox) black market gang. This gang conducts SEO poisoning against the Bing search engine and builds a counterfeit soda music download site to distribute infected compressed files. The attack chain has been restructured, using a multi-stage execution method of “release encrypted payload, ChaCha20 decryption, APC process injection, remote control connection online”. At the same time, a Chinese system environment verification logic has been added to avoid sandbox analysis. The malware stores the ciphertext in the log file for disguise and decrypts it to inject into the system process to achieve covert residence and remote control connection. Users can download and use the “SwimmingSnake” special investigation tool on the Antiy vertical response platform (https://vs2.antiy.cn) to investigate such threats.

Appendix: Introduction to Antiy AVL SDK Anti-Virus Engine

Antiy AVL SDK anti-virus engine is a threat detection capability middleware developed by Antiy for all architectures and system platforms. By embedding the AVL SDK, Antiy products and ecosystem partners’ products can acquire virus and malicious code detection capabilities, and receive continuous updates through the virus database.

For eight malicious code categories including infectious viruses, worms, Trojans, hacking tools, gray software, risky software, junk files, and test files, it accurately identifies and detects over 50,000 families and 18 million malicious code variants. The detection capability fully covers all known malicious codes and strictly adheres to the CARO convention. The output is structured and named in sections by classification, environment, and family, and based on the behavioral capabilities of malicious samples, it outputs nearly a hundred types of malicious behavior tags for typical malicious behaviors such as encryption ransomware, data theft, remote control, botnet programs, and mining. Antiy Engine can recognize over 300 file formats and conduct in-depth preprocessing on compilable executable formats such as PE and ELF. It also performs recursive unpacking of various packages (including self-extracting archives), and conduct structural analysis of compound documents such as OFFICE and ACAD files that may contain embedded scripts or vulnerability-prone formats. This ensures high robustness against malicious code. Antiy Engine also comes with a trusted file signature library, supporting the product to implement security policies based on blacklist and whitelist controls, significantly enhancing the difficulty for attackers.

Antiy’s detection capabilities can be fully deployed locally. Antiy automatically analyzes and processes over 2 million new file objects on average every day and releases a virus database update every two hours. It also provides support services such as cloud detection, cloud analysis, and computer virus encyclopedia.

Antiy AVL SDK is available in various versions such as traditional PC hosts, smart terminals, network traffic, IT application innovation systems, industrial systems, and unmanned systems. It provides threat detection capabilities for scenarios including host system and workload security, network traffic security, business flow security, email and file service security, etc. It fully supports various architectures such as X86, ARM, MIPS (including Cavium), RISC, and PowerPC, supports a variety of mainstream operating systems including domestic operating systems, Linux, and Windows, as well as real-time industrial operating systems like Vxwork. It also supports high-speed detection in backbone network scenarios.

Antiy AVL SDK empowers over 100 industry partners. In addition to Antiy’s own product deployment, Antiy Engine has cumulatively covered more than 4 billion nodes (including mobile terminals, secure and controllable PC endpoints, cloud-native nodes, network devices, network security devices, etc.), providing inherent security detection capabilities for mobile phones and smart terminals. The main partners using Antiy Engine include mobile phone enterprises such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Honor, VIVO and OPPO, large Internet enterprises such as Ant Financial, and several listed cybersecurity companies. Partner products using Antiy Engine have won internationally renowned evaluation awards such as AV-TEST and NSS Labs. The “L Tomahawk” logo of AVL SDK has become a symbol of reliable anti-virus capabilities.

All of Antiy’s products, including but not limited to IEP security protection system product family, Unified Workload Protect, Persistent Threat Detection System (PTD), Persistent Threat Analysis System (PTA), Attack Capture System, Qingzhu Zhiyu WAF, etc., all use Antiy anti-virus engine.

The AVL SDK anti-virus engine has been under development since 2001 and has undergone significant version upgrades and iterations. It has successively received support from key national initiatives, including: the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Innovation Fund for Technology-based Firms (2004), the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program) (2006), the National Development and Reform Commission’s Information Security Special Project (2008), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Engineering Special Project (2019). The mobile version of AVL SDK won the 2014 AV-TEST Best Protection Award for Mobile Devices. Products powered by the AVL SDK, Antiy PTD and PTA, won first place in both the first and second National Cybersecurity Technology Challenge competitions hosted by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC).